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Harmonic Brings Agile OTT Technologies To KOBA

11/05/2018

KOR: At KOBA 2018, Harmonic will demonstrate how pay-TV operators in the region can effectively monetise video delivery to every screen using the latest innovations in cloud, content-aware compression and UHD HDR delivery with low latency technology.

"With OTT video delivery, operators must be agile and focused on providing a superior quality of experience," said Tony Berthaud, Vice President, Sales APAC at Harmonic. "At KOBA 2018, Harmonic will showcase how video content and service providers can take advantage of the revenue opportunities that exist by using software or cloud-based media processing and UHD HDR video delivery solutions. Harmonic's market-leading innovations drastically speed up the time to market for new services, boosting bandwidth and CDN cost savings, improving video quality and allowing OTT service providers to deliver latency comparable to broadcast."

Latency issues have long been a challenge for OTT service providers, especially for live sports. Harmonic's end-to-end UHD HDR workflow is a game-changer, as it enables delivery of live sports content to any screen with exceptional QoE and low latency using Harmonic's ViBE CP9000 contribution encoder for ingest into the cloud and VOS 360 media processing SaaS for OTT distribution.

Harmonic will also demonstrate its award-winning EyeQ content-aware encoding that reduces bandwidth requirements for OTT delivery by up to 50%, decreases CDN costs and improves QoE. A bitrate comparison between HEVC, AVC and AV1 codecs will be shown running on the EyeQ solution.